The Independent i and online edition of the Guardian both report the latest knife attacks against Israelis yesterday. An 80-year-old woman was among three people injured by a Palestinian man from Hebron who wielded a knife in Rishon Le Zion, while a 70-year-old man was stabbed in the back in a separate attack in the central city of Netanya. Yesterday’s attacks were the latest in a month-long wave of violence, which has killed 12 Israelis. Meanwhile, the Evening Standard reports that a Palestinian man attempted to stab soldiers at a checkpoint yesterday and was subsequently shot and killed by troops.

Writing in the Guardian online, historian Avi Shlaim reflects on the 20th anniversary of the murder of former-Israeli Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin. He says that Israel lost not only Rabin, but also his “politics of reason,” according to which Rabin “appreciated the value of military power, but… he also understood its limits.”

The Independent i covers controversy in Israel following reports that Jewish Home’s Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel has proposed the mass deportation of the country’s stray cats.

The Guardian online reports that the US Director of National Intelligence has said that there is “no direct evidence” terrorism was responsible for the weekend crash of a Russian passenger plane over Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, which killed more than 250 people. The Telegraph includes a profile of the ISIS-affiliated Sinai Province terror group, which claims to have shot down the airliner. The profile notes that the group has previously attacked solely Egyptian forces and Israel.

Meanwhile, the online editions of the Guardian and Independent say that Russian planes have bombed an ISIS base near the historic Syrian city of Palmyra. Elsewhere in Syria, the Times online and the Telegraph online say that rebel groups in the Damascus suburb of Douma have imprisoned around 400 members of President Assad’s Alawite community in mobile cages, using them as human shields to ward off air strikes by Assad’s forces.

The Telegraph reports that Iran says it has begun preliminary work to remove centrifuges and consequently is beginning to implement July’s long-term nuclear agreement with the P5+1 powers (US, UK, France, Russia, China and Germany).

In the Israeli media, Yediot Ahronot, Maariv, Haaretz and Israel Hayom all lead with coverage of yesterday’s terror attacks in Netanya and Rishon Le Zion. Yediot Ahronot includes accounts by some of the witnesses and survivors of the attacks, including a shop owner in Rishon Le Zion, who came face to face with the attacker and commented, “The terrorist looked frightened but also seemed to be in a state of ecstasy.” Meanwhile, Maariv’s front page headline is simply “There’s no security.”

There is also a prominent focus in Maariv and Israel Hayom on impending guidelines which Israeli leaders expect that the European Union (EU) will soon publish regarding the separate labelling of goods produced in the West Bank. Israel Radio news says that Israeli officials are still working hard to prevent the initiative, although it appears to be a fait accompli. Maariv says that the precise wording of the guidelines remains a closely guarded secret and so it is difficult to ascertain how binding the directive might be.

Israel Radio news reports that leaders of communities in the Western Galilee have ended a strike in protest at what appeared to be a cut in tax benefits from the government. Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon has reportedly handed these communities guarantees over the financial breaks.